Stigmata, 1st Edition: Escaping Texts

Overview

Stigmata brings together Helene Cixous' most recent essays for the first time in any language. It is a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book -- by one of the greatest authors and intellectuals of modern times.
Signifying through a tissue of philosophical metaphor, poetic power, critical insight and disarming lightness, Cixous' writing is taken up in a reading pursuit, chasing across borders and through languages on the heels of works by authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, Lispector, Tsvetaieva, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences.
Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have long been circulating in the Cixousian universe: love's labours lost and found, feminine hours, autobiographies of writing, animal-human family ties, the prehistory of the work of art ... woven into a performance of writing at the intersection of contemporary Western history and a singularity named Helene Cixous.
Evoking her writing ''origins'', the economy of a departure from Algeria (so as) never to arrive, and the psychomythical events that are engraved as fertile wounds into the body's many bodies, this book is an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.




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Bio of Helene Cixous

Born in 1937 in Algeria, Helene Cixous came to Paris, where she is currently professor of English, in 1955. After a dissertation on James Joyce, The Exile of James Joyce (1968), she began to publish novels, critical essays, and plays, most notably Le Portrait de Dora (1976), a feminist retelling of a Freudian case history. Jacques Derrida has named Helene Cixous the greatest contemporary French writer. Cixous has been an active participant in the development of literary criticism after structuralism and has been a leading figure in the French feminist movement. 020

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Imprint

Taylor & Francis

Filesize

1.48 MB

Number of Pages

336

eBook ISBN

9780203220627